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Man pleads guilty in plot against Obama

A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other black people in 2008.

Daniel Cowart, 21, of Bells, Tenn., pleaded guilty Monday to eight counts of a 10-count indictment accusing him of conspiracy, threatening a presidential candidate and various federal firearms charges. Under a plea agreement, he faces 12 to 18 years in prison but U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen could give him more.

And I hope this ends it, but it won't. Neonazis, Skinheads, members of Stormfront, and others, would love nothing more than to kill a president for no other reason than because he is black. But there is good to this story. Once upon a time, a black man could be lynched for just wanting to vote. Today, a black man is president, and would be lynchers are now on the run. I would like to say that hatred is dying out, but you and I both know that it isn't. But the good news is that those who would kill a black man for participating in the political system are becoming an endangered species, and I look forward to the day when they go the way of the dodo bird. And, unlike the bird, these scum will not be missed.